Copyright, Disclaimer & Terms of Use

This blog does not operate for commercial purpose, but focuses on referee education and information only.

If you feel that any content is belonging to you exclusively or is misplaced, please contact us immediately so that we can remove it!

This also counts for comments which restrict you in your dignity and liberty, which are abusive or insultive. Sometimes such types of comments are not directly seen by this blog's administrators. In order to make them be removed as soon as possible, you can contact us via mail (see above).

Clément Turpin is the most inexperienced of the 18 EURO Referees: 48 international matches and only 6 Champions League matches - nobody else has refereed less than that. It can be hardly denied that he joins the tournament mainly for political reasons (a hosting nation like France needs a referee...). BTW: His assistant referee 2 Nicolas Danos is replaced by Cyril Gringore due to injury.

This is no surprise though: The 34-year old is the youngest EURO Referee since Peter Mikkelsen (Denmark) in 1992 (he was 32 back then).

No wonder that Turpin is considered a huge talent: He went through several talent programs and has been heavily pushed inside the French Football Federation and also in UEFA. Among others, he joined a mentor program in the European football association - his mentor was Roberto Rosetti, the referee of the EURO 2008 Final.

Refereeing Style

Decision-Taker. Turpin's focus is clearly on making decisions and staying in the background, being hardly visible and radiating a modest, but nonetheless self-confident image. This is underlined by the circumstance that he has the highest sending-off-ratio of all 18 EURO referees (1 sending off in every 3rd international match).

His idea of refereeing. Be brave enough to make courageous and unpopular decisions. In many matches, Turpin did not shy away from taking influential decisions, regardless whether against the home or away team.